How XBOX 360 Games ACTUALLY Looked!

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In this video I talk about the seventh generation of consoles, which was comprised of the Xbox 360, the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii, and then I show a lot of different Xbox 360 games running on original hardware and captured with virtually the highest quality possible for today's standard's.
The equipment used for this video was: Xbox 360 S Halo Reach Edition, AVerMedia GC573 4K60 HDR capture card, and original physical media and digital media games.
The gameplay segment is a showcase that features games such as Halo Reach, Gears of War Judgment, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, The Simpsons, Brutal Legend, Far Cry, The Walking Dead, Forza Motorsport, Rayman, Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, and many more.
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0:00 Intro
3:34 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
5:10 Marvel Vs Capcom 2
6:03 The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct
6:51 Guardian Heroes
7:45 Rayman Origins
9:08 Geometry Wars 2: Retro Evolved
10:38 The Simpsons Arcade Game
11:10 The SImpsons Game
11:50 Outrun Online Arcade
12:27 Brutal Legend
13:57 Forza Motorsport 4
15:50 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
17:10 Gears of War: Judgment
17:58 Dark Souls
18:45 Halo: Reach
19:50 Tomb Raider
20:52 Lost Odyssey
22:43 Blue Dragon
23:15 Grand Theft Auto IV
23:56 Red Dead Redemption
24:49 Bully Scholarship Edition
25:35 Magnacarta 2
26:36 Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts
27:23 Far Cry 3
28:50 Outro

[@Amin2k]

The fact that this console is almost 20 years old is crazy to me. Its like yesterday this was the newest gen console.

[@maertenerwin1119]

I read your comment at least 20 times and think about my life...

[@hugopereira5640]

As a 29 year old about to turn 30, the fact that there are 18-year old ADULTS older than this console is crazy. Like shut up kid! You're younger than the Xbox 360! 😁😂😂

[@benironside1264]

I read your comment, and stared at the words like staring into the abyss, my own mortality looking back at me with eyes, red flashing rings of death.. Almost 20 years!

[@astronova3508]

@@hugopereira5640 im younger than the wii and applying for a job lol

[@J.Wolf90]

Pfft new generations don't exist anymore since ps3 360 era. Everything's just been a shallow upgrade since

[@TheRageLivesOn]

2008-2013 was definitely the peak of gaming for me. i loved coming home from school every day to boot up my 360 running through AV cables to a CRT i had until 2012, but i was young and didn't care or know any better about TV's at the time. i had so much fun spending countless hours on COD, Battlefield, and Halo with my friends, and especially Minecraft when that came out on the 360. some other games i sunk countless hours into are Forza Motorsport 3 and 4, Need For Speed Most Wanted 2005, Project Gotham Racing 4, DiRT 2 and Guitar Hero Warriors of Rock. definitely my favorite generation of consoles edit: im adding this because people can’t comprehend that i’m not trying to say that 2008-2013 was objectively the peak of gaming in general, but rather MY peak of gaming. i was born in 2000 and i only had a PS2 at my dads and an Original Xbox at my house before i got an Xbox 360 with my friends on Christmas 2008, so i was way too young to truly appreciate anything before the 360. hope this clears everything up so people stop throwing random years at me saying it was better than what i said

[@phillystevesteak6982]

man the drift courses in dirt 1/2 are still the best ive personally experienced in a racing game. but personally, i dont think this is the strongest console generation, and in fact the 3 generations before were far more magical to be a gamer imo. but hey when its your childhood, its hard to see it any differently

[@TheRageLivesOn]

@@phillystevesteak6982 i personally don't like playing games older than the PS1 era, but i can definitely see why someone would say the SNES/Genesis is the best console generation for someone that actually experienced it first hand

[@sunnywagle8995]

2011 specially!! Arkham City, Uncharted 3, Battlefield 3, MW3, Gears of War 3, Crysis 2, Witcher 2, Portal 2 and most importantly Skyrim. Damn, I can't remember a bad release that year.

[@TheRageLivesOn]

@@sunnywagle8995 Duke Nukem Forever came out in 2011 so there’s a bad release, but there were so many good games that i’ll let that one pass 😂

[@sebastianc5155]

I remember thinking that gta 4, og black ops, halo reach, and skyrim looked really good on a 90s CRT I used to have around 2010-2012. I did not even bother with HDMI on the 360 until after the xbox one released.

[@JonBaldie]

As a school kid in the 2000s I remember being absolutely blown away by the Xbox 360’s graphics.

[@TheDominionOfElites]

It was such a huge jump up from the previous gen.

[@TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube]

​@@TheDominionOfElites Agreed Was so powerful for its time at that pricepoint and easy for devs to get excellent results compared to PS3.

[@8K240hz]

360/ps3 era had such a legendary lineup of games... crazy

[@J.Wolf90]

Everything has been cut and paste since. Even the new systems feel like a shallow upgrade. I literally call my ps5 a ps3 3.0

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

Nintendo Wii, too, and that era was something else.

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

@@J.Wolf90 I call my Xbox One an X360 2.0 and it is still worth operating to this day. PS4 had a slow start and it was all just remastered games for that system, so that's why I stuck to X360 for more innovative games like Forza Horizon, Tomb Raider, Alien Isolation, and Wolfenstein.

[@J.Wolf90]

@CandelaThirteen I'm sure new games could be downgraded for the ps3 and still have all the same graphics and gameplay with reduced high definition. I like to look at gtaV from ps3 to 4 to 5 as the best example. There's also cod and many other long running franchises that just get the shallowest upgrades with each new game. I also think that these franchises as popular as they are are just playing it safe and holding back a lot of interesting and true innovation in gaming.

[@LuckiestDanPer]

@@TheRecklessMetalhead Nintendo "will" Nintendo Will Switch

[@guilhermeramalho3137]

The 360 was hands down the peak of playing video games for me. I had no job and going to school was the only thing I had to do. That was the time when I started really playing online. I got into Call of Duty and Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm online multiplayer modes. Oh man, good times. These days I've been mostly playing baby simulator. The graphics are crazy, though :)

[@dreamcastdude2398]

Baby Simulator?

[@BrewReview]

You might get the joke in a few years. He's right though, the graphics are super lifelike. There are some tough parts even before the simulation begins, you've been warned.

[@flyingplantwhale545]

Wasn’t the first Ultimate Ninja Storm a PS3 exclusive?

[@guilhermeramalho3137]

@@dreamcastdude2398 Ahhh, to be young...

[@guilhermeramalho3137]

@@flyingplantwhale545 yeah, I think I really started playing UNS 2 and my peak was UNS Generations.

[@codezero7981]

many games from 360 still look amazing till this day.

[@ajsingh4545]

Look is not the problem, it's the frame rate ... Many titles drop below 30

[@ChrisThePlayer777]

Sonic 06, resident evil 5, gta iv are some of the games that will forever look gorgeous graphically

[@jcdenton868]

@@ajsingh4545 Modern warfare 2 was 60 fps target for both ps3/xbox 360.

[@treystewart731]

​@@ChrisThePlayer777 Sonic Unleashed is still an amazing looking game too.

[@ChrisThePlayer777]

@@treystewart731 Sonic Unleashed was a gorgeous looking game but it looks a bit rough due to its native resolution being under 720p

[@ZeranZeran]

Playing through Gears of War 1 & 2 on the Xbox 360 is still the most graphically impressive thing I've ever seen when compared to all other games. It just blew me away so much, and honestly still does. There are ofcourse games with better graphics now, but the way they pushed the 360 to its absolute limits and used art styles and other tricks just amazes me. It looked 10 years ahead of its time.

[@stuckintheinbetween]

That's how I felt about the Xbox 360. Getting it at launch and playing PGR3 with the cockpit view, Condemned: Criminal Origins and immersing myself in its terrifying and realistic environments, Kameo and its vivid and colorful cartoonish world, etc. While the Original Xbox did high-definition for some games, not many people had high-definition TV's back then. Xbox 360 felt like the true first step into high-definition gaming, and it was freaking amazing.

[@piffromney1916]

@@stuckintheinbetween me and my boys played perfect dark multiplayer for hours 😂😂😂😂

[@Mrcoconutgun]

bro...

[@ZeranZeran]

@@Mrcoconutgun Hello again! This is getting bizzarre, right? I kinda like it though lol.

[@christianmino3753]

ten years is a HUGE overstatement. It literally looks like next evolution of the xbox/PS2 Era games. Yes it was stellar, but 10 years ahead of it's time? That would mean the games would have looked as they do now, which they don't.

[@Majima_Nowhere]

Truly, the 7th gen consoles were a golden age for gaming. No company had really figured out how to exploit online services and battle passes yet, so the way to make money was just to... make the god damn game fun. I STILL go back to play black ops sometimes.

[@walsh451]

in PAL regions the 360 came out 18 months before the ps3, then the ps3 was £500 compared to the 360 which was £299.99 at that point, has a massive impact on sales

[@H.E.M.]

Mw2 blew my mind away back in 09. Still looks good 😌

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@H.E.M no Russian 🇷🇺🙅🏾‍♂️🚫 got way to real in the years 😳 to come lol . I remember mainstream news talking about that mission & how controversial it was at the time. It definitely made COD way more mainstream than it was up until that point

[@jasonashley9853]

That's the amazing thing. Despite the graphical advancements and frames per second boosts of today. MW2 still looks really good.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@jasonashley9853 expect for the foliage & brick textures which look like a ps2 game when you're up close. But idc,more of an observation than a criticism.

[@ecole146]

I was 16, and my god was I obsessed with MW2. I still remember checking my playtime just a few months after release and seeing that I had 15 days of playtime, or 360 hours - at that time, I calculated that I was averaging over 4 hours a day despite being in school and being a part of sports and clubs. Every waking moment I possibly could was spent on MW2. And yeah, the game still holds up to this day.

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@@ecole146 a lot of kids were obsessed with it back then 😁, I remember people taking days off school just to stay at home n play

[@NostalgiaNet8]

I miss the 360 generation, not just because of the games, but because you didn't have so many restrictions like nowadays.

[@Loophole23742]

I know right. I still play my 360s even to this day. The Alan wake games,sleeping dogs and GTA episodes from liberty city mostly. Probably the 2nd most used console in my collection which I use if not playing my ps5. I rarely use my one x or my ps4 pro. I just use my ps3 to record tv shows.

[@4TheWinQuinn]

@@Loophole23742sleeping dogs is an absolute banger. It’s so good on 360, I still play it.

[@CaptainFALKEN]

You could betray your team on Halo like 30 times before you get kicked. On Halo 5 people get offended too much and don't have as much fun

[@balazsvarga8582]

You know... I was certain that I grew too old or became too picky or bitter or whatever when every recent game I played just made me go 'meh'. But trying the new Forza Motorsport yesterday made me realize that the games are the problem.

[@Asaylum117]

A lot of PS3 & XBOX 360 games look good even for today's standarts. But the thing was that this was back when game developers, especially the triple A industries still prioritised actual gameplay, instead of turning things into interactive movies or releasing unfinished games. 7th gen of gaming in my honest opinion was a perfect balance between good graphics and gameplay. Afterwards, gaming just became more boring then anything else.

[@l2shields]

this gen is when everyone started complaining about movie games. like cod campaigns

[@M_CFV]

ps4 era had great games with great gameplay, stop generalizing.

[@TheWESTSIDE1967]

Exactly, PS3 God of war 3, The Last of us, Metal gear solid to name a few

[@ashwindreddy2847]

Movie games are Not Really A Problem when the movie is Good tho Like some Metal Gear Solid games.

[@Asaylum117]

@@ashwindreddy2847 The difference with Metal Gear Solid is that you can actually skip the cutscenes, especially if you want to do repeated playthroughs for the games. Not to mention that MGS gameplay is very unique and fun for those who enjoy stealth based action games. Metal Gear Solid 3 is one of my favourite Metal Gear games, because the gameplay is just too much fun and unique without it going stale. While compared to modern games that pretty much copy n paste the success of The Last of Us, pretty much too many games, especially Sony games have you slowly walk for 15 minutes without anything happening, then magnecticlly climb ledges without any consaqeunces and then have the same repetetive third person camera combat that doesn't have any challenge other then not letting the player turn the camera around to see what's behind them. And of course you can't skip cutscenes, because games now need to be more immersive or interactive. Yeah, it works for the first playthought, but with stuff like New Game +, it's just not worth a second playthrough.

[@bizmonkey007]

How this console succeeded despite the red ring fiasco is a testament to how good the games and platform was.

[@Fishplants]

I cant believe how fast the time flies

[@brainwashedburgerworshipper]

Yay a accurate video of how 360 games looked! I'm glad people who didn't play 360 can see this and see how awesome it was.

[@Bluebird77750]

Im gonna buy 360 because of this video. I have ps3 and ps4 but I want to get into xbox stuff and learn more about it. Fable and red dead is on my list. I have red dead on ps3 but it doesn’t look and perform good so i don’t play it.

[@mechanicalmonk2020]

​@@Bluebird77750you're better off buying red dead on the PS4 now

[@phlumt]

@@Bluebird77750 you could always get a Series S and use the backwards compatibility!

[@suprxmefire9497]

8:37 bought me back to 2012 playing this on my Wii. I really wanted a 360 slim back then, I remember playing one at my uncles house in his man cave with my cousins and their console was all I was thinking about. I have the Xbox one s now which I love.

[@biohazard_guy]

Eu vendo vídeo de gringo de boa e achando a voz familiar, daí vi o controle que dizia "BRKsEDU". Como assim?!! Conteúdo muito bom como de costume, agora é só esperar os gringos descobrirem o nosso sapecudo, com certeza em seguida vai bombar!

[@alfredopaes7643]

Na hora que vi o Forza 4 em português-br, já era, é brasileiro por trás kkkkk

[@heitor916]

20 segundo de vídeo e vim direto nos comentários porq senti algo estranho kkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@Canarye]

Eu ouvindo o vídeo, nos primeiros 10 segundos pensei "eita, esse sotaque é brasileiro... e a voz é familiar" fui logo descendo os comentários

[@murilo656]

​@@Canaryeeu também!! Kkkkk

[@foxhound5985]

KKKKKKKKK não to sozinho então, jurava que tava viajando mas esse sotaque é familiar

[@armyoftwo13]

My first gaming system was N64. Playing classics like golden-eye, Starfox 64, Super Smash, & F-Zero etc. Had a Dreamcast too. Then receive my first Original X-Box. Playing Fusion Frenzy, Doom, Halo Combat Evolve, Halo 2 and call of duty finest hour, also MOH. The 360 came, and everything was amplified. The titles coming out, first game I ever played, was Lost Planet. Awesome game. Gears, COD 4, Halo 3, Need for speed most wanted, F.E.A.R., OutLast, MW2, WAW, etc. it was an amazing bull run of games. It was amazing. Wish we can all go back.

[@bigboy815s]

Lost planet was one of the best online games ever I wish they would make it again

[@armyoftwo13]

@@bigboy815s never got the chance to play it online :(

[@aid0nex]

You know what was the best about the 7th generation? You just simply went to the store, bought a game, threw it into your Xbox 360 and played it! No first day patches, no unfinished games, no big DLCs, no seasons, no game passes - and if you did not want to play the game any longer, you just sold it. That‘s it. Even people with a low budget were able to buy new games due to the big used market. It was just about enjoying the games, not about maximizing the profit. Also from a technical perspective this generation was just impressive - such good looking games with this low end hardware (to nowadays standards). Developers really had to use the hardware effectively and intelligent in order to achieve good results. They had to develop it bug-free and complete until release and they really did care about those games!! Ah man, better times…

[@Shinolakiller]

This was the generation that brought everything you despise about modern gaming. For my was de PS2-GCN-Xbox era the last KINO era.

[@zarathustra-]

I don't think you actually lived to play through this generation if you really meant this lol. Day 1 patches were 100% a thing, and VERY common, season passes were literally introduced in this era and were just as bad, expensive tiny DLC was starting to be a thing, and you absolutely could NOT just put a disc in and play it lol, at least online. it got even worse with later stuff in the ps3 gen, GTAV was just straight up missing half of the games content for the first 3 months. you are being hopelessly nostalgic, you can say this abt ps2/gen 6 and thats abt it.

[@vasopel]

@@zarathustra- nope..not true, I personally played all my games on the 360 without ever going online ,so no patches no nothing, only once I found a bug (on Black Flag), I also Played GTA V on the 360 and I have no idea what you mean by: "missing half of the games content"

[@zarathustra-]

@@vasopel You dont remember GTA online being literally missing from September-late october despite it being advertised on the box? You dont remember 15GB patches being mandatory for online? You bring up black flag, but surely you remember how AC3 and Black Flag were LITERALLY the first games to introduce the idea of season passes? Black Flag is like the first game to introduce the shitty practices you praise lol, youre just being nostalgic dude

[@vasopel]

@@zarathustra- didn't you read in my comment: "without ever going online" ?, all the games play fine with out never downloading patches on the 360 AND the ps3 (I also never connected that console to the internet)

[@hostile7teen]

I love your commentary. I appreciate your voice, the tone, your accent. It's pleasing to my ears.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thank you very much!

[@HiltTilt]

This generation was and will be forever imo known as the most improved graphics in any 1 generation!

[@jamesmcmackin8773]

Still remember getting Red Rings on my original run Pro model I got in 2008 about exactly a year in, summer 2009, right when they extended the warranty coverage. The three weeks of summer vacation I spent waiting for it to return in the mail were very pressing times. 360 and PS3 games hold up pretty well since it was a considerable leap from the previous gen in terms of texture size and post-processing capabilities, stuff that many devs went overboard with in the first few years. Shoutout to early 360 games that use motion blur excessively because it looked so revolutionary at the time.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thanks for the comment! Personally I’m not a huge fan of motion blur! And excessive motion blur usually reminds me of PS2 games!

[@TheJoemeister75]

I still remember as a kid reading how to "Fix" the Red rings by wrapping your console in towels and letting it run for a few hours, hopefully melting the solder and fixing it. It worked and my xbox ran for years after that.

[@jamesmcmackin8773]

I've heard the same but luckily the repairs were still covered by the extended warranty, it was just over a year after I bought it and the original warranty would have just barely expired, leaving me with the towel strategies. @@TheJoemeister75

[@reaper6766]

Yeah this happened to me and it took about a month to get it back. I remember being so butthurt about it lol. Oh yeah and I did try wrapping it a towel to melt the heatsync back in place 😂

[@jamesmcmackin8773]

I was really hyped to finish Mirror's Edge, that was the last game my 360 ran before getting sent for repair.@@reaper6766

[@jasonashley9853]

Assassin's Creed 1-Revelations (Hell even AC 4), COD 4-Black Ops. GTA 4 and Saints Row 1 and 2. Rock band. You name it. So many good and memorable games. The 7th generation left a permanent mark on me. It was the peak of gaming my eyes. Theres some good games today but the 7th gen was truly unforgettable.

[@YourLOVE_10_21]

BRO!! this video deserves more views, this is the first video I've watched on your channel and this video is very well narrated and very well done, good games and one of the best consoles created I have the ps3, ps4 and the xbox 360 and xbox one s I always get together with friends to play the classics and remember good times we always got achievements and platinums greetings from Argentina

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thank you much for the feedback! I’m glad you liked it! Muchas gracias 😅

[@ekinteko]

@@VideoGameShowcase One thing you missed is that this was the best decade or era for gaming. Especially on the consoles. Here is how: - The Xbox 360 was the cheaper console, third-party titles looked great and much better for Online Multiplayer. Imagine keeping this in your bedroom. - The PS3 was the cheapest BluRay Player of its time, and great multimedia player in your living room. Also it had some exclusive titles that were movie like, making it a great addition to your house. - The Wii was definitely the weakest of the three in every metric. But it still was relatively cheap. That music was awesome. And it was a great accessory to your home, something to keep the aunties, grands having fun and the kids busy. So yes, buy all three! As for PC Gaming it was entering into a new age with Windows 7, Intel Core-i Sandy Bridge, and GTX-600 series around the end of the 7th-gen console period. Emulation was coming back. And indie titles were starting to populate Steam. So I guess that's four, what about handhelds? Well, ideally you would've started or continued on this era with your PSP Slim/Brite. Lots of PS1 and PS2 era games right there in your pocket. And if you're a Nintendo Fan, the DS Lite just fills that void on the cheap. So ideally you would've gone: PS1, N64, GBC, PS2 (sell PS1), Windows XP (sell N64), DS Lite (sell GBC). (2005) Xbox 360, PSP Brite (sell DSL), PS3 (sell PS2), Wii, new3DS (sell PSP), Gaming PC (sell Wii). (2015) PS4 (sell 360), Upgraded Gaming PC (sell PS3), NSwitch (sell new3DS), PS5 (sell PS4), Valve SteamDeck OLED (sell NSwitch).

[@christianorthodoxy4769]

F.E.A.R when it first came out . Mass effect One Forza series. And much more...

[@Bodom1978]

Such a great generation, ive recently brushed off my 360 and having a ball going through its library. Playing the fantastic Singularity at thr moment.

[@MEOWINGRECRUIT]

I think its so crazy Blue Dragon is in this video. Its literally one of my favorite games of all time that gets no love or recognition. I think the gameplay, story, and graphics hold up to this day. Love that game.

[@voidx6782]

Blue Dragon is better than all the Final Fantasy games after IX

[@justmetal227]

Really love the video, I really apprecciate all the time you took to faithfully portray the 360 in its best face

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comment!

[@stefankaliczak8641]

It was a phenomenal machine. Apart from FPS and resolution, games really haven't moved on a huge amount since Gears of War which was absolutely industry shifting on so many levels. The 7th generation shaped gaming as we see it today.

[@killer_samm]

wrong

[@stefankaliczak8641]

@@killer_samm haha.

[@darthwiizius]

Gears of War was also Epic's launch title to showcase Unreal Engine 3. Brilliant game that both set the standards for third person shooters and taught us all we really want in life is a machine gun chainsaw.

[@SomniaCE]

This is primarily because that generation of hardware started an abysmal graphical arms race that prioritized raw visual fidelity and post processing over resolution and performance. It takes so many visual sacrifices to increase resolution or especially framerate but casual consumers were so annoying about (and still are) graphical fidelity that companies realized that the games could totally play worse and not reach solid resolutions so long as texture quality and post-processing effects were marginally better. Now companies want to push 60fps at the minimum but it took us over a decade of dealing with mediocre performance and resolution to finally get there and even now the focus on visual fidelity is such an ailment that games take longer to make and we have fanboys online bragging about which console has the prettier exclusives like it matters. I love the 360 and PS3 but I really wish that 60fps was the goal of that generation. The PS2 and Xbox have a bevy of games that pushed for 60fps while still being gorgeous and standing the test of time. The 360 and PS3 have games that look good but don't really play super well on original hardware, even if there are plenty of exceptions.

[@stefankaliczak8641]

@@SomniaCE excellent analysis all round. We forget that 60fps isn't a new thing.

[@TheAilmam]

I like how your video is so postiive instead of focusing all on the negatives

[@endtab]

Great video, keep doing man, i'm sure that you're going to be really successful, greetings from Brazil...

[@prpledough]

Just got this on my recommended. solid video dude!!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thank you very much!!!

[@NehemYah810]

What's crazy to me is in newer games you almost have to watch a video to catch all the graphics and effects you would've missed but when ps3 and 360 came out the upgrades were right in your face. Every game at the beginning of this generation felt like a graphical masterpiece lol. I guess we're just accustomed to it now. I remember a time when I would play a game where the characters had individual fingers finally and going like OH SHIT.

[@rodrigofelixnogueira2434]

That's amazing!! Feedback to Edu... KZbin recommended your page on my home - congrats on the organic growth of your new channel

[@jimhud134]

Thanks for doing this video. The 360 generation was one of my favourite in video gaming.

[@alistairblaire6001]

X360 clearly had the better hardware that gen but I wish it had more Japanese developed games. When you go back and play some PS3 exclusives they’re basically unplayable and you need to run them on an emulator with unlocked frame rate.

[@mwilliford200]

I remember playing through the Gears of War 2 campaign with an old best friend of mine as well as my cousin, those are some of my fondest memories of gaming.

[@gringobronx7670]

I still play my 360

[@jyudat4433]

what a time it was to be alive. the 7th generation era

[@Thecelestial1]

Gears of war was like nothing I'd ever seen before. It was INTENSE! Love it to this day!

[@conandrade]

Boa sacada BRKEduuu =) Sucesso, mate!

[@Decode1999]

sim mn

[@sppl623]

its so far and away the best feeling controller i have ever held and almost all of my favorite games of all time land on this console. what a gem

[@THNF89]

Nothing that's come after it has felt near as good to me and one of the best things about moving to PC is I've been able to play with the 360 controller again. Seems like Everytime I bring this up people say the Xbone/Series/Dualshock4/5 are all better

[@sppl623]

@@THNF89 the dualshock is pretty nice and ngl the dualsense ps5 controller really might just be better, but if someone thinks the xbox one roller is better theyre on crack

[@tdestroyer4780]

All of my friends and I still used crt tv's when the xbox 360 was in it's peak. I was playing the 360 recently and was amazed at how good these older games look on a modern tv.

[@turismofoegaming8806]

You just totally reminded me in this video that I purchased Forza motorsport for a while back and I have yet to play it!! I think I’ll be doing that today- I completed Fort motorsport three and head beat all of the ones before it Forza two and Forza!

[@douglasrodrigues5878]

I must say, this is an amazing video. I really liked, new sub here!

[@brandon11122]

I remember the first time I played RDR, I didn't think it was possible for games to look better

[@TwistOfTransistor]

Very good video. I wish all video creator on youtube would capture gameplay from older consoles, like this. This is what older console gameplay should look like. Thank you.

[@Amin2k]

You took me back with this video man, thanks!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

@VideoGameShowcase ah love your username and picture 🤣😅

[@Amin2k]

@@VideoGameShowcase Thanks man, i appriciate it. I enjoyed your video a lot!

[@CalvinCrack]

This was definitely the birth of the modern era of games in that games from this period still look good when played at higher resolution and frame rate. And we’re still seeing sequels which retain a similar art direction. The trade off is: we got 3 Uncharted games and Last of Us on PS3 but only 2.5 such games on PS4. And now on PS5 Naughty Dog still hasn’t released (let’s sidestep the remakes and remasters). I am a huge fan of beautiful graphics, but there’s a part of me that would rather have 4 Naughty Dog games than 2. Gears of War we saw 4 games on the 360, and I think 2 on Xbox One.

[@pleasuretokill]

What I love about these old Xbox and 360 games how a lot of them play way better on the X and S now. All the Halos, Skyrim etc.

[@simpleserpent1337]

Hey! Nice video! A lot of personality in the vid, i liked it very much, its like you telling a story of your expirience with console through this compilation :D

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thank you very much for the comment, I'm glad you liked it!

[@jakegoodall4173]

amazing well made video brother

[@scpnoobers]

Gta 4’s color can be fixed in the settings by raising the contrast, saturation and brightness.

[@taijo_]

Oh man, awesome video! What version is this for MVC2? The arcade discontinued one?

[@VideoGameShowcase]

The delisted one, yes! Thanks for the comment!

[@skhkwk]

loved your video! you remember me of one of my favourite youtubers!

[@WrestlinGifs]

Great editing bro!!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thanks. Appreciate it!

[@suicideposter]

It's nice seeing these games in something better than 240p

[@abraxaseyes87]

Been watching phone YT at 360p thank you for showing me how good 1080p+ resolution can be.

[@hi_its_jerry]

it's pretty great yeah! but my internet hates it lol

[@cookiereds]

Great Video! One thing I always miss is when they brought out 1vs100. Would be so good if they did something similar again.

[@GornubiusFlux]

I still remember the awe I felt at the Gears of War advert with "Mad World" playing in the background. Was powerful stuff.

[@CristianLopez-xi4rt]

The Xbox 360 was meant for CRT TVs with composite/s-video cables. This is why games looked the best on CRT. Future revisions of the 360 got HDMIs, games also switched to HD TV's outputting to 720p widescreen.

[@nintendonerdjoseph]

Great video! Very nostalgic for me! It's wild that you skipped Halo 3, though, as it had some impressive lighting and water effects making it often look better than Reach.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

I’ll admit I’m not the most knowledgeable person to talk about Halo 😅 I’m sorry I skipped it! And thanks for the feedback!

[@johanmartinez9589]

Wow yeaahh! I remember when i was a kid, see the gameplay of halo 3 and thinked is the real life or something similar

[@davez220]

My favorite game from the 360 was Project Gotham Racing 4. What a game.

[@Daniel-vo1vf]

Sooooooooo i occasionally just found out this channel Edu, i didn't know that you have this one, it's pretty cool to see you doing this type of content, hope to see you growing here too ❤

[@vinionsinho]

Esse vídeo me deu um nó absurdo na mente, fiquei jurando que era um plágio usando de um youtuber desconhecidíssimo usando IA hehe, mas percebi que é o próprio! Muita boa sorte com esse seu novo público! Seu conteúdo é excelente e merece ser visto mundialmente

[@Ranesu]

Man , I Miss the best call of duty era... Simply cannot stand the confusing menus and poor campaigns nowadays. Black ops 1 , COD 4, MW2 and MW3 were the best ones imo. Nice video!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Oh, the user interface nowadays is a mess. It's like a bad mobile game filled with nonsense, super confusing... just awful unfortunately!

[@Ranesu]

@@VideoGameShowcase Thanks Little Naughty! hehehehe

[@EvilWiffles]

It's amusing that you say that era of CoD was the best. I've always considered it to be the worst as it tumbled it downhill where it is today.

[@TheRecklessMetalhead]

@@EvilWiffles CoD2 to MW3 was the best era for the franchise. Everything else since Black Ops 2 is the same recycles, and I have not played a single installment since that one, that's it.

[@uziiwastaken]

great video!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thanks!

[@click4gameplay]

Great video bro!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Appreciate it!

[@smd-tr9jl]

Caralho edu mkkkkkkkk foda pra crl o video pprt eu cliquei no interesse e sabia q a voz tava meio familiar dai quando vi o controle tudo fez sentido lkkkkkkkkkkkk tu eh foda pprt

[@Deployer]

não é?? eu achei estranho tbm kkkkk

[@Draqziifying]

I love the Xbox 360. It is easily my favourite console of all time. I had so much fun playing COD, Minecraft and those weird indie games with my friends who i met online. Even after i got an Xbox One in 2014, i still played my Xbox 360 more for about another 2 years. This console was just amazing and i have some of my best ever gaming memories on it.

[@TheTech660]

Thanks for this!

[@MatLaren]

I wasn't expecting that voice whatsoever. Keep up the good work and you will achieve success 😅

[@pedro_dalpian]

Possibly the best game generation in my opinion, even though I recognize it isn't technically the ''greatest'' generation of all time. I don't know, but the late 2000s and early 2010s bring such a nostalgia for me: a bunch of great games being released without any bugs (patches weren't still a thing), AAA developers releasing some of their best games until that point, KZbin was just getting started and there wasn't TikTok or short video formats, people were still buying physical games... I feel that the world is much more digital and less fun nowadays. I miss those good old days of the 360!

[@hb-robo]

…7th gen was the gen that popularized patches, because they all had and expected you to use internet support

[@geekinoffamolly8230]

I still buy physical

[@CaR1235100]

They all looked amazing on a CRT, sure they kinda run in 720/1080 but they shine on the CRT

[@generalshakewell]

This was a great video!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thank you very much!!!

[@jirc]

Great video

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thanks!

[@ClutchOuya]

When black ops 2 came out me and my buddy would grind out our homework in our last period English class so we could go home and game all night together. Simpler times 😅

[@norbkowa]

I got the Walking Dead Survival Instinct for WII U and i actually enjoyed it a lot. I was disappointed in some things that were repetitive like the side missions were almost the same level and graphics were dated but it is still fun.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Never knew it came out for the Wii U, nice!

[@trekkie1701e]

I played 360 on component cables to a 36“ CRT (90s Zenith, weighed 200+ lbs). Looked so good. With a wired controller, the 60hz screen running 30fps input lag was non existent.

[@HeroStrike]

OH MEU DEUS ÉS O BRKSEDU!!!! OMG YOU ARE BRKSEDU!!!! Adoro o teu canal e sou teu inscrito há taaaantos anos. Adoro e aprecio todo o teu trabalho e esforço, além de que tenho orgulho de dizer que te vi a crescer nesta tua jornada no youtube. Sigo este canal há umas 2 semanas e só agora que apercebi-me de quem tu eras hahahaa. Abraço de Portugal!!!!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Muito obrigado!!!

[@HiroshiMorenos]

Eu tava procurando vídeo sobre uma TV CRT e ai me aparece esse video no meio da pesquisa. Pensei 'massa, vou ver qual é' aí do nada é o BRKsEdu, kkkkkkkkk

[@EuouviHQShqs]

mlk eu comecei a reconhecer a voz dele e fiquei em CHOQUE

[@9unslin9er]

The Switch is still basically running on Xbox 360 graphics. That's how impressive that machine was at the time. Furthermore, Microsoft was able to do backwards compatibility with emulation. That's like getting a Ti-83 graphing calculator to emulate a Game Boy.

[@switchdeck9164]

What are you talking about the Switch uses the Tegra x1 released in 2015. Switch is ancient hardware.

[@9unslin9er]

@@switchdeck9164 Yeah...I know. I'm saying the 360 was very impressive for its time.

[@karlfrieder8118]

This was a really cool video!

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thanks!

[@YourLOVE_10_21]

24:30 the soundtrack of red dead redemption 1 and 2 I love them, they are masterpieces

[@blanketmobbypants]

I didn’t know the 360 had a Halo edition that actually had custom sounds. That’s cool. Liked and subbed

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Because that was the only 360 I ever used for a good while I thought those were the regular sounds. It took me years to find out I was wrong! Thanks for the comment!

[@TokyoBalletReprise]

Dunno if you've heard about it, but after Microsoft bought Activision recently they fixed all the old cod servers.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Yeah! That was recorded before that! Thanks for the comment!

[@ZeranZeran]

26:46 This perfectly describes Tears Of The Kingdom for me. Lmao. Great video man.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Thanks for the comment! Glad you enjoyed it!!!

[@lucascassemiro]

Awesome content!

[@bluetooth2677]

I'm running my PS3 and 360 in 720p HDTV which is perfect for them. The games still kook great.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

Yeah, that’s actually a better choice than a modern 4K set! Awesome!

[@gatrow581]

No they don’t 😂😂 720p is barely hd

[@bluetooth2677]

@@gatrow581 720p is not barely HD, it's 100% HD. Anything at 720p or above is HD. Most PS3/360 run at 720p or upscale to 720p resolution. So playing on 720p TV will still give you a good image. There is reason PS2 games look terrible on HD TV, but great with a CRT. Also, can depend on the size of the screen. Why do you think switch and steamdeck are using 720p/800p. Because you will barely notice a difference between 4k and 1080p playing 20 inch monitor/TV. I emulate PS3 games at 4k by the way. . Lol.

[@slarbiter]

@@gatrow581 watch a DVD on a decent crt tv with 5 RCA, 720p is HD and looks amazing. It just looks like shit when stretched to 4k screens. Seems everything made in 4k today looks great but lacks in quality content. The best movies shows and games still hold up great when used in their native habitat

[@arsonne]

Maybe I'm misremembering but this was the one console generation that really felt like consoles were right there with PC as far as how advanced they were. I was floored the first time I played Gears of War at a buddy's place.

[@nicholaslewis279]

2008-2013 was the peak indeed. No one was afraid to take risks, and that resulted in some - quirky, weird games - games to play when you're high - games to play when you just wanna chill - games that are so bad, they're good. not like now where the games are so bad you feel physically sick for buying them

[@jsr734]

Great selection of games, but everything looks way too dark. Are you sure you have calibrated your capture equipment for optimal brightness and contrast levels?

[@VideoGameShowcase]

What would come to my mind would be the black levels (limited vs full range) but it looks normal on my end! I’ll double check though, thanks!!!

[@jsr734]

@@VideoGameShowcase I mean is evident in The Lost Odyssey section, there are lots of places where things get too dark and it gives me the sensation that i am lossing details in those dark sections. I don´t own an Xbox 360 so i really cannot tell if that "darker" appereance is indeed the way this games look on real hardware though.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

I’ll definitely double check! Thanks!

[@KrisEnigma]

@@VideoGameShowcase I know it's been 3 months since this comment and maybe you fixed it, but I was about to comment that you definitely set full range instead of limited and that's why it's so dark. Great video anyways!

[@youngkob3408]

Dang we getting old boys, sad that kids nowadays are stuck playing low quality games compared to our time, and back then it was a lot more impressive because the old games look like crap compared to the new ones. Now the new games look only a little bit better and are actually worse because they release with bugs and less content

[@DuckAlertBeats]

A classic console, nice video. So many amazing games this gen. Incidentally, I think you gave Full Range RGB set on your 360, you want limited generally. Footage is very dark because of this. But yeah, nice one. This was a great time for games compared to now.

[@VideoGameShowcase]

I’ve been manually setting the color range because the auto mode probably caused a mismatch! That’s both on the console and the capture card, of course! Thanks!!!

[@DuckAlertBeats]

@@VideoGameShowcase Cool. I notice a couple of others mentioned it in the comments too so apologies for that :) Also the 360 has options for display - normal, enhanced and extended (something like that anyway lol) Have you tried playing with those? Not sure what the best setting is for that tbh

[@VideoGameShowcase]

It’s been a while but I believe extended is PC range (full range)!

[@DuckAlertBeats]

@@VideoGameShowcase Right. Makes sense

[@vitthor]

"grande sapecudo" I subscribed immediately. This guy is one of ours Also, I didn't knew about Guardian Heroes. Really reminds me of that capcom DnD game for arcade machines that is really similar and fun

[@Duomonnnnn]

I feel like this was the last era where these game companies were small enough that they didn’t feel like they were “too big to fail” and could just half ass any unfinished game and release it to a mass of morons who pre order everything regardless of it’s good or not, back then they actually had to release a good game or else the sales wouldn’t be good

[@cryptocsguy9282]

@Duomonnnnn unless you're SEGA & kept releasing crappy sonic the hedgehog games & people kept buying it. Smh

[@Duomonnnnn]

@@cryptocsguy9282 yea I mean their was definitely crappy companies back then but it’s a industry norm now, and sega probably realized that sonic was such a household name that they could get away with it, I actually really liked sonic sega all star racing though, they actually did pretty well on that one, but yea I heard a lot of the main line games are awful copy and pastes, but nowadays I can’t think of a company that’s not really like that, maybe besides rockstar and fromsoftware, everyone else like call of duty, assassin creeds, any sports game, etc realize they are too big to fail and know they can half ass a copy pasted game to a mass of drones who pre order it right away

[@cryptocsguy9282]

Yep I agree that unfinished garbage games that rely on too many updates or just remain broken are of course more common nowadays as online updates and downloading of games has become more common. I enjoy sonic and sega all stars racing and sonic and all stars racing transformed over the mainline games and the crappy sonic riders racing games that came out back in the 7th gen too. also I agree that fromsoftware doesn't release broken trash but rockstar does with the GTA trilogy re-release but they're part of take2 and other take2 studios release broken crap like buggy WWE 2k in the 8th gen @Duomonnnnn

[@Duomonnnnn]

@@cryptocsguy9282 that’s actually a good point, I was thinking red dead 2 but that might’ve just been a one off thing and I also heard they kinda abandoned the rdr2 multiplayer after the game was released so maybe they aren’t as good as I thought, but like studios like bethesda are the absolute worst, re releasing skyrim like 10 times while still having the same glitches as day 1 is crazy, also the fact that starfield was one of the worst games I’ve ever played but theirs still a army of fanboys who will defend it no matter what not knowing they are just setting the bar lower and lower with zero standards, they just want something to consume and will take quantity over quality anyday, and the companies know that and will purposely rush out games they know aren’t finished because of those same fans already pre ordering it without knowing a single thing about the game, back during the ps3 days it seemed like they actually had some expectation and were forced to make a good polished game if they wanted good sales, then right after that the gaming industry got huge and they became too big to fail, my favorite games on ps3 were little big planet 1 and 2 and then by the 3rd game they rushed it and it came out with countless problems and your profile would randomly delete and you’d lose all progress, it’s been 9 years and they still haven’t fixed it but have made multiple crappy spin offs, they even deleted the servers on the original 2 games so you weren’t able to go play on them so million’s of community levels deleted and if you wanted to play you’d have to go play the broken 3rd game, basically destroyed the community

[@cryptocsguy9282]

Yes bethesda is bad with releasing buggy games that they can't be bothered to fix and have done that since the original elder scrolls arena in the mid 90s and also I know that the spyro franchise was killed off on ps2 before it's 1st reboot pre skylanders after naughty dog stopped making the games when spyro enter the dragon fly was rushed out as buggy unfinished crap for the 2002 Christmas season so there's a lot of high profile examples of devs taking the piss and releasing bad unfinished nonsense before the 7th/8th gen but in the days of day 1 patches and updates it has become worse. Rockstar abandoning read dead 2 online is interesting since I think I remember them abandoning single player add ons for GTA 5 in favour of GTA online , dunno why thy didn't attempt to push red dead 2 online the same way since GTA online makes so much money and yh I think it's a shame when companies shout down online servers and you lose access to valuable online content like the user generated levels in little big planet , my cousin used to play that game a lot back in the day and i've though about playing the psp version since I don't have a ps3@@Duomonnnnn

[@YanJuca]

Edu? conteúdo massa!!!

[@Brinx101]

This is, hands down, my favorite generation and console of all time; so much so that I our family went through 3 Xbox 360s (Red Ring stopped being a problem once we got the slim lol.) This brings back so many fond memories; Gears of War couch co-op with my brothers, using Xbox Live parties as a pre-discord communication platform with my best friends. Such an iconic console.

[@user-hoe25xsni2hn4n4gs]

2008-2013 great triple A games

[@snowvoredude]

best console ever